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Wise, Adams, Pearce !! What is this, a cockney love in ? Are our new owners determined to turn us into a pale imation chelsea or what. Of all horrible cock-er-nies Wise is the most cock-er-ney and the most horrible. I agree, we need to go back to basics and bring some f****** Geordies in, get some pride back. Someone get on the phone to Rob Lee, Warren Barton and Les Ferdinand quick! lol geordies Whoosh

Owen's been worse though, so what are you on about? He was replying to a comment about Martins. It's only the Martins fan boys who feel the need to mention Owen every time someone criticises their hero who need to get a grip.

Do not agree witrh this. Who in your opinion then are the bottom 6 that are on a par with us, our of interest? We've kinda made ourselves look shit by struggling to take points off every team below us. I reckon we need about 40 points. Agreed, but I kinda promised myself to drop out of this thread before I became known as one of the negative fans

Do not agree witrh this. Who in your opinion then are the bottom 6 that are on a par with us, our of interest? We've kinda made ourselves look shit by struggling to take points off every team below us.

He can bring Beckford with him as a 4th choice striker.

Think we'll make a last minute, take it or leave it bid for him. £8 mill tops. If Woodgate signs for Spurs, Downing wont ...... lets have Downing please Only if someone converts him into a central midfielder. Why would we be looking at left wingers?

Koumas probably would improve us. Koumas is shite why get koumas when you have milner, he's twice the player. What? Missed the sarcasm tag I guess?

"if they buy the right players they can challenge Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea in two years" :D :D Righto Sib.

Spurs and keepers eh.

Who is asking for Keegan to be sacked? Well talk of relegation is hardly "Keegan's gonna succeed" talk is it. I think we'll struggle without proper investment whoever the manager is. I certainly won't blame Keegan for it, nor do I want him sacked. You don't even think we'll get relegated so what I said doesn't even concern you Fair enough. I'm just addicted to replying

Who is asking for Keegan to be sacked? Well talk of relegation is hardly "Keegan's gonna succeed" talk is it. I think we'll struggle without proper investment whoever the manager is. I certainly won't blame Keegan for it, nor do I want him sacked.

Who is asking for Keegan to be sacked?

Exactly the point I'm trying to make. I don't agree. Geremi, Barton, Emre, Smith, Butt - not a decent central midfielder amongst them. None of them have creative ability (although no doubt the Emre fans will claim that one day he'll just come good).

In the other threads I'm posting that we can't attract the likes of the top European midfielders (VDV, Diego etc). People are saying we shouldn't be looking at the likes of Defoe, Lita, Koumas etc. I personally think we should.

Which form table are you referring to? The one I posted on the previous page http://www.footballanorak.com/FA-Barclaycard-Premiership-Form-Guide-0.html Based on the last 6 games, isn't that quite a random number to base it on?? Ok, another random number. Last 14 games: Won = 2 Lost = 8 Drawn = 4 Is that better? Our form is shite. How can you even argue with that??

Have you read any of my posts? I've said I think Bolton will be the third team to get relegated (with Derby and Fulham) but it's likely that without improving our squad (specifically the midfield) then we'll be dragged into a battle. So basically, no, you don't think we will be relegated either. Like the majority of the responses in this thread... I don't think we're good enough to guarantee that we won't. I think we'll finish much closer to the bottom 3 than we will to the top 7. Where do you think we'll finish?

Which form table are you referring to? The one I posted on the previous page http://www.footballanorak.com/FA-Barclaycard-Premiership-Form-Guide-0.html Because the last 6 games count for the entire season. I could so easily just say look at the first 6 games of the season to show what the team can do. Won 3, Drew 2, Lost 1. Means the same. Form counts for nothing if you switch a manager inbetween it. Keegan had no effect in 5 of the last 6 games. He could turn it around easily in the next 6 games, there's no proof either way. Come on, that's a bit of a daft argument. How we're playing NOW has much more effect than how we played 4 months ago. And I've agreed with you on that last line throughout this thread. What annoys me is the "we're too good to go down" shite which is being spouted (not by you by the way).

Have you read any of my posts? I've said I think Bolton will be the third team to get relegated (with Derby and Fulham) but it's likely that without improving our squad (specifically the midfield) then we'll be dragged into a battle.

You understand players will need to actually want to join us right?

Which form table are you referring to? The one I posted on the previous page http://www.footballanorak.com/FA-Barclaycard-Premiership-Form-Guide-0.html

The day Keegan was appointed manager, people were screaming for a strengthening of the squad. This thread has "happened" because of the Woodgate story, not the Arsenal result. By the way, in case anyone is getting me wrong... I'm not saying we WILL go down, I'm saying that we COULD. The point being made is that it's not just losing games that will get you relegated, it's other teams below you winning, and there aren't more than 3 teams below us that are better than us thus meaning we won't finish inside the relegation zone this season, even IF we didn't win again (which is unlikely!) A team went down last season with 38 points. That's the most irrelevant statistic ever. You might as well have said "Antoine Sibierski doesn't have any hair" Is it though? You're claiming that we're safe on 27 points. Someone earlier in the thread posted a list of teams who we are better than, nearly all of whom took points off us. I've now posted a form table, which puts us second bottom. Do people realistically think that without strengthening the squad, we won't be dragged into a relegation battle? On the evidence of what?? Where is our evidence of us being dragged into one? It's just your opinion that we are going to lose more games than those below us. Which the majority disagrees with. Erm, our form?

You've said that much better than I could, thanks. For the record, I think Bolton are going down anyway.

The day Keegan was appointed manager, people were screaming for a strengthening of the squad. This thread has "happened" because of the Woodgate story, not the Arsenal result. By the way, in case anyone is getting me wrong... I'm not saying we WILL go down, I'm saying that we COULD. The point being made is that it's not just losing games that will get you relegated, it's other teams below you winning, and there aren't more than 3 teams below us that are better than us thus meaning we won't finish inside the relegation zone this season, even IF we didn't win again (which is unlikely!) A team went down last season with 38 points. That's the most irrelevant statistic ever. You might as well have said "Antoine Sibierski doesn't have any hair" Is it though? You're claiming that we're safe on 27 points. Someone earlier in the thread posted a list of teams who we are better than, nearly all of whom took points off us. I've now posted a form table, which puts us second bottom. Do people realistically think that without strengthening the squad, we won't be dragged into a relegation battle? On the evidence of what??

The day Keegan was appointed manager, people were screaming for a strengthening of the squad. This thread has "happened" because of the Woodgate story, not the Arsenal result. By the way, in case anyone is getting me wrong... I'm not saying we WILL go down, I'm saying that we COULD. The point being made is that it's not just losing games that will get you relegated, it's other teams below you winning, and there aren't more than 3 teams below us that are better than us thus meaning we won't finish inside the relegation zone this season, even IF we didn't win again (which is unlikely!) A team went down last season with 38 points.

The same Martins that safed us from relegation last season scoring 17 goals in a dog shit team with a dog shit manager and set up? Martins is quality and i am fully confident he will do very well under Keegan. 11 goals to save us from relegation.